Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Vlassis referred to the strategic role placed by Greece in safeguarding religious freedoms and in protecting religious minorities, speaking during the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. Vlassis, who holds the expatriate Greeks portfolio, met during the event with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, where he reiterated that…

The Metropolis of Smolensk, in western Russia, has issued an announcement warning of a scam involving the sale of purportedly “blessed” charms and medical masks, ostensibly to protect against the coronavirus. The Metropolis said such claims are fraudulent and blasphemous. In a related development, the Patriarchate of Moscow on Thursday praised the actions of the…

Friday marks the 12-year anniversary of the election of Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, to the throne of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. Members of the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod, during a second round of voting on Feb. 7, 2008, elected Ieronymos as the new Archbishop, by a vote…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Thursday expressed his hope and prayers for the reopening of the Theological School of Halki, the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s historic but still-closed seminary, which is located on the small eponymous Marmara Sea isle. His All Holiness reiterated that the reopening of the seminary, which was…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Friday received the recently confirmed European Commissioner for Promoting the European Way of Life, Margaritis Schinas, at the Archdiocese in central Athens. The Greek Commissioner’s portfolio includes migration policy and developing a new asylum framework in the EU. The Archbishop congratulated Schinas, a native…

A mother left her healthy newborn daughter at an Upper Manhattan church earlier this week with a note that said she couldn’t raise the child because she was “raped” and a “drug addict,” police sources said Thursday. “Please help I can’t have this baby I was raped and I’m a drug addict,” the mother reported…

Citizens of the Russian Federation and other countries donated more than 3 billion rubles for its construction. His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, confirmed the official name of the church, which is being built in the Patriot park near Moscow to mark the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic…

Realizing the feat and heritage of new martyrs and confessors of XX century lets us make certain again that evil forces cannot overcome the Church, the Primate said. The history of the Church in the Soviet period is a tragic and at the same time majestic page of the twentieth century, drenched in the crimson blood of innocently…

In Pljevlje on 6 February 2020 for the 18th time there was a prayerful procession of faithful people who express their dissatisfaction and protest over the adoption of the unjust Law on Freedom of Religion, passed late last year in the Parliament of Montenegro. At first, there was a prayer of supplication in the church…